Faurecia Interieur Industrie

Hella Kgaa Hueck and Company

Daniel Ory

Thierry Schupbach

Charles Burry

Jürgen Griebel

Yannick Gouedard

Interior trim part for a motor vehicle comprising a body, a channel-door assembly, a sealing system and a foam layer. The body comprises a passage. The channel-door assembly is mounted on the body. The channel-door assembly comprises a channel wall and a door portion. The channel wall has an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface being intended to guide the deployment of an airbag, the outer surface extending along a deployment direction. The door portion is connected to the channel wall and overlies the passage. The sealing system extends around the outer surface of the channel wall, in continuous contact with the body and comprises a lip protruding from the outer surface of the channel wall. The foam layer covers the body and the door portion.

Interior trim part for a motor vehicle comprising an airbag door

The invention relates to an inflatable airbag arrangement in a motor vehicle dashboard, the arrangement comprising a flap () hinged to a dashboard body () to open when on inflation of the airbag, and having a linear tie () therein fastened to the flap () and to the dashboard body (). According to the invention, additional elements (to) are overmolded on the tie (), each overmolded additional element (to) having a specific outside shape that engages in a corresponding housing in the flap () and/or in the dashboard body (), the tie () being put into position in the airbag arrangement by the additional elements (to) being engaged in the corresponding housings in the flap () and in the dashboard body ().

In-dashboard airbag flap arrangement comprising a tie having overmolded elements

The invention relates to an inflatable airbag arrangement comprising a dashboard body presenting a window, a flap closing the window and being hinged to a transverse hinge edge of the window, and a firing channel fastened to the bottom face of the dashboard body. At least one tie is fastened to the flap and to the firing channel in order to form a hinge and/or in order to limit opening of the flap, and the firing channel includes at least one opening putting an inside face of an edge of the firing channel into communication with an outside face thereof. The tie passes through the opening in order to be fastened by being retained firmly by an outside face of the firing channel while the flap is opening.

Inflatable airbag arrangement comprising a flap connected to an instrument panel by a linear link having four parallel retaining portions

The invention relates to a motor vehicle inflatable airbag arrangement () comprising a flap () covering an inflatable airbag module. This flap (), which comprises a body () to which a reinforcing plate () is fixed, is articulated with respect to a fixed part () so as to open upon inflation of the airbag, and a linear tether () is secured to the flap () and to the fixed part () so as to limit the opening of the flap () when the airbag inflates. The linear tether () is fixed to the flap () by being sandwiched between the body () and the plate () fixed to this body (). The flap () comprises a reinforcing rod () interposed between the plate () and the tether (), this reinforcing rod () running alongside the outline of the flap () at least in the region where the tether () protrudes beyond this outline.

Inflatable airbag arrangement comprising a reinforced flap

The invention relates to an inflatable airbag arrangement () comprising an instrument panel body () having an aperture (), a flap () closing this aperture () while being articulated to a transverse articulation edge of this aperture, a firing canal () fixed on the underside face of the instrument panel body (). At least one tether () is fixed to the flap () and to the firing canal () so as to form a hinge and/or so as to limit the opening of the flap (), and the firing canal () comprises at least one opening () establishing communication between an internal face and an external face of an edge () of the firing canal (). The tether () passes through this opening () to be fixed while being held firmly at an external face of the firing canal () when the flap () opens.

Arrangement of an inflatable airbag in an instrument panel comprising a flap connected to the instrument panel by a linear tether

The invention relates to a mounting () for an inflatable airbag () module intended to be fitted on a lower face () of a motor vehicle dashboard (). This mounting forms a firing channel in which the airbag is guided in order to be deployed towards the passenger compartment through the dashboard (). It comprises an upper wall () intended to be fixed to the lower face () of the dashboard () and an upper face () to which the module () is intended to be fixed. This mounting () has a top portion () and a bottom portion () which are secured rigidly to one another and are produced from two different materials, with the material of the top portion () being more flexible than the material of the bottom portion (). The invention applies to motor vehicle safety.

Ageing-resistant mounting for inflatable airbag module

The invention relates to a vehicle instrument panel inflatable airbag arrangement (), comprising a flap covering an airbag module, a tether () secured to the flap and to fixed means () rigidly secured to the instrument panel to constitute an articulation of the flap with respect to the instrument panel. According to the invention, a portion () of the flexible tether () passes around a limit stop () that forms part of the fixed means () while being fixed to these fixed means () a certain distance away from this limit stop () so that when the flap opens, the linear tether () is torn out of the fixed means () in order to come to press against the limit stop () in order to release an additional length of tether making it possible to increase the mobility of the flap.

Inflatable airbag flap articulated to an instrument panel by a tether designed to release an additional length of tether when this flap opens

The invention relates to a hinge arrangement for an airbag flap hinged to a dashboard. The motor vehicle dashboard body () is provided with an opening closed by a flap (), both the opening and the flap being defined by an outline () that is generally rectangular, the flap being suitable for opening so as to allow an airbag to be deployed. It is further provided with one or more linear ties (-) fastened to one face of the dashboard body and to one face of the flap, in such manner that segments () of linear ties straddle a portion () of the outline that extends transversely relative to the vehicle on which the dashboard is to be mounted, in order to constitute or reinforce a hinge (AX) via which the flap is hinged to the dashboard body. The invention relates to motor vehicle safety.

Hinge arrangement for airbag flap hinged on a dashboard

The invention relates to an airbag flap arrangement hinged to a dashboard provided with an opening closed by a flap (), both the opening and the flap being defined by an outline (), the flap being suitable for opening so as to allow an airbag to be deployed. The arrangement is provided with one or more linear ties (-) fastened to one face of the dashboard body and to one face of the flap, in such manner that at least two linear tie segments straddle a lateral portion () of the outline (). The two linear tie segments are slack and cross over each other at the lateral portion of the outline that they straddle so as to constitute means for limiting the amplitude of opening of the flap. The invention relates to motor vehicle safety.

Airbag flap arrangement hinged on a dashboard

A trim element () includes a base element () of rigid plastic material, a supple skin (), and a layer of foam (), the trim element having a principle region () and a marginal region (). The marginal region () includes an end region () in which the base element has a substantially constant thickness (e) and the layer of foam is absent, and a coupling region () at a distance from the edge () of the base element () and the edge () of the skin () and in which the base element () has a thickness (e) smaller than the thickness (e) in the end region ().

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Le Plessis-Bouchard, France

Daniel Ory